Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. We enable people to use, understand, adapt, and share software.
Imagine you could install any software on any device. The devices you own that don't receive updates anymore, or where you found out that the software is full of ads/tracking. You could replace it, maybe with a Linux distro like postmarketOS running mainline. These devices wouldn't need to be electronic waste. We signed @fsfe's #openletter to the EU to make this happen.
Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. We enable people to use, understand, adapt, and share software.
Users who want to keep using their devices for a longer time, or to reuse their hardware in a creative way, face a wide range of barriers: from obsolescence to an unexpected end-of-support, from spare part serialization to locked boot loaders. In practice, these artificial restrictions on using and reusing hardware are ultimately imposed by software. We signatories of the Open Letter signed by more than 38 European organizations and companies to support #RightToRepair #EcoDesign
Today the FSFE publishes an #OpenLetter, co-signed by 38 European organisations and companies to ask #European legislators for the universal right to install any software on any device, including full access to hardware: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220427-01.html
The FSFE publishes an open letter, co-signed by 38 organisations and companies, to ask EU legislators for the right to install any software on any device, ...
